Body Found In Lake

DIGEST

May 12, 1989|Staff reports

Broward Sheriff`s Office divers on Thursday recovered the body of a 33-year- old man who disappeared on Tuesday after his canoe overturned in a lake.

Divers found the body of Gerald Meyers at 10:40 a.m. in 23 feet of water on the bottom of the lake about 50 yards from the spot where he disappeared, Sheriff`s Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said. Visibility in the area was zero, Leljedal said.

Meyers` body was taken to the Broward Medical Examiner`s Office where an autopsy will be conducted, Leljedal said.

Meyers was fishing in a canoe with his 7-year-old son, Matthew, and a friend when the canoe overturned, dumping all three into the lake. Meyers disappeared as he tried to swim to shore. His son and friend made it to shore safely.